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1、大学英语四级阅读选读大学英语四级阅读选读大学英语四级阅读选读：美丽人生There were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart.她有着一种与外表无关的灵气和美丽。她的话语轻而易举地征服了人心，她正是我们 要聆听的声音。 It is said that the true nature of being is veiled. The labor of
2、words, the expression of art, the seemingly ceaseless buzz that is human thought all have in common the need to get at what really is so. The hope to draw close to and possess the truth of being can be a feverish one. In some cases it can even be fatal, if pleasure is ones truth and its attainment m
3、ore important than life itself. In other lives, though, the search for what is truthful gives life. 很多人都说人生的真谛是个未知的概念。言词的费力诠释、艺术的着力表现还有人类 那似乎永无休止的纷繁思考，三者都苦苦追寻人生的真谛。希望走近以至完全把握存在的 真意可以令人十分狂热。有时候，有些人以自己笃信的真理为志趣，追寻真理甚于保全生 命，于是就有舍生取义之举。然而，也有另外的一种人生，他们在寻求真谛的过程中灌溉 生命。 I used to find notes left in the colle
4、ction basket, beautiful notes about my homilies and about the writers thoughts on the daily scriptural readings. The person who penned the notes would add reflections to my thoughts and would always include some quotes from poets and mystics he or she had read and remembered and loved. The notes fas
5、cinated me. Here was someoneimmersed in a search for truth and beauty. Words had been treasured, words that were beautiful. And I felt as if the words somehow delighted in being discovered, for they were obviously very generous to the as yet anonymous writer of the notes. And now this person was in
6、turn learning the secret of sharing them. Beauty so shines when given away. The only truth that exists is, in that sense, free. 过去， 我常常在教堂的心意篮里面发现一些优美的小短文，有些是关于我的布道，有些是作者日 常读圣经的感想。写这些短文的人不仅对我的一些观点加以反思，同时还会引用一些 他/她曾经读过的，令他/她难忘又喜爱的诗人或者神秘主义者的话。我给这些短文迷住了。 我看到了一个执着于追寻真与美的人。其珍而重之的字句，优美动人。我还感觉到好像那 些字句也乐于让我
7、们发现，它们是那么毫无保留地，慷慨地为这无名氏作者借用，而现在 轮到这位无名氏来学习与人分享这些美文的奥秘。分享令美愈加闪耀生辉，在这个意义上 说，其实世上唯一的真理是分毫不费的。 It was a long time before I met the author of the notes. 过了很久我才见到这些短文的作者。 One Sunday morning, I was told that someone was waiting for me in the office. The young person who answered the rectory door said that
8、it was “the woman who said she left all the notes.“ When I saw her I was shocked, since I immediately recognized her from church but had no idea that it was she who wrote the notes. She was sitting in a chair in the office with her hands folded in her lap. Her head was bowed and when she raised it t
9、o look at me, she could barely smile without pain. Her face was disfigured, and the skin so tight from surgical procedures that smiling or laughing was very difficult for her. She had suffered terribly from treatment to remove the growths that had so marred her face.一个星期天早上，我被告知有人正在办公室等我。帮我应门的年轻人说“是
10、个女人， 说留言是她放的。”看见她的时候我大吃一惊，因为我马上就认出她是我的教区信徒，只是 我一直不知道那些短文是她写的。她坐在办公室的一张椅子上，两手相扣搁在大腿上，低 垂着头。在抬头看我的时候，她微笑起来却十分费劲。那是一张破了相的脸，外科手术使 她的脸皮绷得紧紧的，笑对她来说也是很困难的。为了去除脸上碍眼的肉瘤她接受了手术 治疗，这令她吃尽苦头。 We chatted for a while that Sunday morning and agreed to meet for lunch later that week. 那个星期天早上我们聊了一会儿，并决定那个星期再找个时间一起吃顿午饭
11、。大学英语四级阅读选读：幸福是段旅程Happiness is a journey Treasure every moment that you have！We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, than another. Then we are frustrated that the kids arent old enough and well be more contet when they are. After that were frustrated
12、that we have teenagers to deal with. we will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage.我们总是说服自己，认为当我们结婚、生子后日子会过的更加舒心些。然后我们又被 那些小鬼的不懂事搞得不顺心，当他们大了些后，情况会好些吧。当孩子到了青春期的时 候，（有时）对于如何跟他们好好交流又会使我们很无措。我们都深信当他们过了那个年 龄段后，事情就会有些转机。 We always tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse
13、gets his or her act together. when we get a nice car, and are able to go on a nice vocation when we retire. The truth is, theres no better time than right now. If not now, when? our life will always be filled with challenges. Its best to admit this to ourselves and decide to be happy anyway.我们总是对自己说
14、，当另一半有条理的过活时，（我们的）人生就会很圆满。当我们 买了一台漂亮的车子后，我们认为可以在年老退休后开去度假。可事实上，再也没有比当 下更好的时间段了，要不是现在这时，那么还能是什么时候呢？我们的人生满是各种神奇 的未知数。不管怎么说，对你我而言，最好是承认活在当下里的意义然后及时“自己给自己 找乐”。One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred Souza. He said.“for a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there
15、 was always some obstacle in the way, someting to be gotten through firest, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.我最看中一段尔弗雷德.苏泽说过的话。他说“一直以来，我感觉的是真正的生活就要 来了。但是在前面总有些东西拦在那里，一些问题必须先被搞定后才能进行下一项，比如 未完成的工作，（做事时）等着轮到自己的那段时间、等待着交钱的帐单。” Then life would begin. At last it dawned
16、on me that these obstacles were my life.“ Thisperspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment that you have.当这些事解决后你才能开始自己的一天。后来我才觉悟到解决这些生活琐事的时候就 是我的人生。怀着这样的想法使我认识到幸福是没有方式去追求寻找的。因为寻找幸福的 过程本身就是幸福。所以珍惜你所拥有的点点滴滴。 And remember that time waits for no one. So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school; until you get married, until you get divorced; until you have kids; until
